amateur
[amaˈt̪ewɾ]
The verdict
“amateur” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #11,345. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,345
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 120,137
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Diletante, aficionado.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amateur |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [amaˈt̪ewɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “amateur” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around amateur (IPA [amaˈt̪ewɾ]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,345 among 120,137 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Diletante, aficionado.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for amateur, with forms such as "aamteur", "amaetur", and "amateru". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is amateur, spelled A-M-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Diletante, aficionado.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aamteur
- amaetur
- amateru
- amateurr
- amatteur
- amatuer
- ammateur
- amtaeur
- maateur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of amateur - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “amateur”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-M-A-T-E-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [amaˈt̪ewɾ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.